Numbers 12
1 [Moses’/My older sister] Miriam and [his/my older brother] Aaron were saying this: “Is Moses the only one to whom Yahweh has spoken messages to tell to us [RHQ]? Does Yahweh not speak messages to us two also?” [They told people that] they were saying that because Moses/I had married a woman who was a descendant of the Cush people-group, [but they were really saying that because they (were jealous/did not want Moses/me to be the only leader of the Israeli people)]. But Yahweh heard what they were saying.
Hablaron María y Aarón contra Moisés, con motivo de la mujer cusita que este se había tomado; pues estaba casado con una mujer de Cus.
Decían: “¿Acaso tan solo por boca de Moisés ha hablado Yahvé? ¿No ha hablado también por nosotros?” Y lo oyó Yahvé.
3 [The truth was that] Moses/I was very humble. He/I was more humble than anyone else on the earth [and Moses/I had not appointed himself/myself to be their leader].
Es de saber que Moisés era hombre muy manso, más que hombre alguno sobre la tierra.
4 So immediately Yahweh spoke to Moses/me and to Aaron and Miriam. He said, “All three of you must go and stand at the Sacred Tent.” So they/we did that.
Al instante dijo Yahvé a Moisés, a Aarón y a María: “Id los tres al Tabernáculo de la Reunión.” Y salieron los tres.
5 Then Yahweh descended to the entrance of the tent in a cloud [that resembled a huge white] pillar. He told Aaron and Miriam to step forward, so they did.
Y descendió Yahvé en la columna de nube, y poniéndose a la entrada del Tabernáculo de la Reunión, llamó a Aarón y a María que se presentaran ambos.
6 Then he said to them, “Listen to me! When a prophet is among you, I [usually] reveal myself to him by allowing him to see visions, and I speak to him in dreams.
Y Él les dijo: “Escuchad mis palabras: Si alguno de vosotros es profeta, Yo Yahvé me le doy a conocer en visión o le hablo en sueños.
7 But that is not the way I speak to my servant Moses. I trust that he will lead my people [well].
No lo hago así con mi siervo Moisés, el cual es fiel en toda mi casa.
8 So I talk to him face-to-face. I speak to him (clearly/using words that he will understand easily), not using parables. He has even seen what I look like. So you should be afraid to criticize my servant Moses!”
Con él hablo cara a cara y claramente, no por medio de enigmas; pues él ve la imagen de Yahvé. ¿Por qué, pues, os atrevisteis a hablar contra mi siervo Moisés?”
9 Yahweh was very angry with Miriam and Aaron, and he left.
Y habiéndose inflamado contra ellos su ira se fue Yahvé.
10 When the cloud rose up from the Sacred Tent, Aaron looked at Miriam, and he saw that her skin was [as white] as snow, because she now had leprosy.
Después se retiró la nube que estaba sobre el Tabernáculo y he aquí que María apareció cubierta de lepra como de nieve. Cuando Aarón volvió el rostro hacia María, la vio cubierta de lepra.
11 Aaron said to Moses/me, “My master, please do not punish us for this sin that we have foolishly committed.
Entonces Aarón dijo a Moisés: “Oh, señor mío, no nos imputes, te suplico, este pecado; pues hemos obrado neciamente, hemos pecado.
12 Do not allow Miriam to be like a baby that is already dead when it is born, whose flesh is already half decayed!”
No sea ella como un abortivo, que al salir del seno de su madre tiene ya medio consumida la carne.”
13 So Moses/I cried out to Yahweh, saying, “God, I plead with you to heal her!”
Entonces clamó Moisés a Yahvé, diciendo: “Te ruego, oh Dios, que la sanes.”
14 But Yahweh replied, “If her father had [rebuked her for doing something wrong by] spitting in her face, she would have been ashamed for seven days. [She should be ashamed because of what she has done]. So send her outside the camp for seven days. Then [she will not have leprosy any more, and] she may return to the camp.”
Y Yahvé respondió a Moisés: “Si su padre la hubiera escupido en la cara, ¿no se avergonzaría ella por siete días? Sea, por lo tanto, excluida del campamento por siete días, y después será recibida de nuevo.”
15 So they sent her outside the camp for seven days. (The people/We) did not move [to another location] until she returned.
Fue María excluida del campamento por siete días; y el pueblo no se movió del lugar hasta la reincorporación de María. Después el pueblo partió de Haserot; y acamparon en el desierto de Farán.
16 But after [she returned], they/we left Hazeroth and moved [north] in the Paran Desert and set up their/our tents there.
